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Picking-Hand Technique


This lesson is part of the course Irish Mandolin with Marla Fibish.
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Learn traditional Irish mandolin, with an emphasis on playing the dance music of Ireland with an authentic Irish feel and rhythm.
 
 
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Introduction to Reels
 

In this lesson, you’ll learn the reel “Anything for John Joe.” It’s what is often called a “half reel” or “single reel,” meaning there are only 16 measures in the whole tune. Marla starts by playing “Anything for John Joe” through a couple times and then takes it apart slowly, phrase by phrase.

 
 
 
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Picking-Hand Technique  
 
Picking-Hand Technique  
 
Picking-Hand Technique
Picking-Hand Technique
 
Irish music is dance music, so creating a solid rhythmic feel is essential. In this lesson, Marla gets you started thinking about your picking-hand technique, explaining alternate picking (or as she calls it, “rhythmic picking”) and showing you a good basic picking motion for your picking hand. She talks about stressing the downstrokes to get the underlying rhythm for an Irish reel, and gives you a picking exercise for practicing putting a stress on the backbeat. You’ll also learn an exercise based on the rhythm of the tune “Hernando’s Hideaway” to get your hand moving in the baseline rhythm of whatever tune you’re playing, so you don’t need to think about whether you should be playing a downstroke or an upstroke.

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